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Writing few words for Teaching and Research

 

Dear Friends,


I am thankful to you for providing me an opportunity to express my feeling about teaching and research. I believe in the simple philosophy, expressed by Friedrich Nietzsche to his sister, "If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire". Teaching and learning for me is more than profession or vocation; it is as sacred as unconditional giving without any motive or wish to get things in return. What would be the finest ethics of commerce if ignorant about love and kindness, care and generosity? Teaching, if taken as a love, is the best music one can feel; what else is so harmonious and beautiful than quest of knowledge, its boundless possibilities to know and shape the current moment and unknown future. Buddha, Gandhi, Socrates, and Tagore; they were the best students of life and its wisdom and perhaps the best teachers of humanism, whose wisely words are the garden, which allows the possibility of flowering the potentiality of every beautiful dream. I do not know any other ethics but allow myself as an empty mind to think, feel, and live. I'm already a teacher and teaching at my alma mater, only those subjects which are foundational in the creation of a grammar of civilization, i.e., the ethical possibility of commerce and its bond with law; political economy. I am a student of jurisprudence, who loves to read a few words, written by the minds of the century; I'm fond of talking to dead men, who are alive in texts; potentially open for a new reading and a new possibility of interpretation. I am expressing my interpreted world, consumed by a consumer of ideas; I can't be more thankful for your patient reading of my letter. Cheers!

Yours,

Mritunjay Kumar

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